Louise Allnutt

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Dr Louise Allnutt is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience working in number of different trauma-focused settings with children, parents, families and young adults. Her current clinical role is based within UCLH, an acute medical trust where she is the Head of Child Psychotherapy. As well as leading a variety of psychotherapy services across the Trust, Louise is passionate about supporting colleagues with the emotional complexities of acute medical care and she and the psychotherapy team deliver a number of work discussion and reflective practice groups to a variety of clinical teams.

Louise has taught on many Tavistock and Portman courses courses since 2008 and has a deep interest in developmental trauma and its impact and psychoanalytic theory and its applications. She currently leads the ‘Understanding Trauma (D18)’ course, facilitates the trauma workshop for doctoral trainees in child and adolescent psychotherapy and co-runs the trust-wide trauma forum with Jo Stubley.